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Production Gains Lead to New and Expanded Systems
Crude oil production in the Denver-Julesburg Basin in northeastern Colorado and southeastern Wyoming has nearly doubled over the past four years and increased by 45% over the past two years, making the D-J Basin the second-fastest-growing major production area in the U.S. — only the Permian Basin has been growing faster.
In this Drill Down Report, we discuss a large sampling of existing and planned crude gathering systems in the D-J Basin, including, where possible, each system’s mileage, throughput capacity, related storage facilities and connections to takeaway pipelines, as well as the acreage that producers have committed to the system. We also examine the increasing significance of crude quality in the development and design of gathering systems.
- Favorable production economics continue to drive crude oil-focused production growth in the Denver-Julesburg Basin, where crude output has increased by 45% in the past two years to about 620 Mb/d.
- Production gains have spurred the development of new crude gathering systems in the D-J, as well as the expansion of existing systems, all with the primary aim of reducing the cost of delivering oil from the lease to takeaway pipelines.
- Most of the new crude gathering capacity is being built in Weld County, CO, which has been the epicenter of drilling activity, though new lines also are being added in a number of neighboring counties.
- Crude quality — in this case the ability to segregate lower-API, higher-value oil — is a key aim for producers and midstreamers as they build out their D-J crude gathering systems.
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